Staff Software Engineer, Storage

About the Role

The Cloud Storage team at Crusoe seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development and execution of our storage strategy. This role will be instrumental in driving innovation and performance improvements within our cloud storage infrastructure. You will work extensively with cloud storage primitives, utilizing advanced storage engineering concepts to build and operate high-performance, scalable, and reliable storage solutions.

What You'll Be Working On

• Lead engineering efforts on cloud storage features by collaborating with product and engineering to define and execute features on the roadmap.
• Write and review code, generate and review design documentation. Participate in qualifications and rollouts of software across the stack journeying from bare metal to user-facing APIs.
• Guide the engineering team through architecture decisions, design processes, design reviews, code reviews, and implementation tasks.
• Mentor and grow engineers on your team, fostering an environment of teamwork and continuous learning.
• Champion and lead initiatives across the engineering organization such as tech talks, open source development, and book clubs.
• Benchmark, analyze, and improve scale, performance, and resiliency issues.

What You'll Bring to the Team

• Cloud Storage Expertise: Hands-on experience building and operating large scale, complex distributed cloud computing infrastructure products. Preferably, experience building redundant and fault tolerant storage solutions with backups, replication, encryption, and data protection mechanisms.
• Software Engineering Fundamentals: Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Technical Proficiency: Strong experience with at least one application programming language like Java or Go. Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tooling with any of Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and/or Terraform. Knowledge of Linux Systems Internals and computer architecture.
• Communication & Collaboration: Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Safety and Compliance: Must be able to pass a background check.

Bonus Points

• Storage Technologies: Hands-on experience with storage technologies such as NVMe, SSDs, and distributed storage systems.
• Storage Protocols: In-depth understanding in at least one of block storage, object storage, and/or file storage. Familiarity with storage protocols like NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF.
• Open Source Contributions: Demonstrated track record of contributions to the open source community (e.g., Ceph, GlusterFS, OpenEBS).
• System Programming: Proven experience in system programming with C, C++, and/or Rust.
• Networking: An understanding of physical and software-defined networking concepts.
• Education: Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.